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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Cambodia research

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800-1324 – The Khmer empire ruled Laos and Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

9th to 15th centuries – The rise and fall of the Khmer empire in the city of Angkor. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

200-700 AD – Era of the Kingdom of Funan at Angkor Borei. (Timeline internet).

1150 AD – Angor Wat in Cambodia. (The story of archeology. Juston Pollard (c)2007 UK).

12th century – Angkor and rice production, grown for centriries. Buddhism. The Angkor Wat complex was built in the 12th century. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1659 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia after civil war. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

1690 – Vietnam annexed Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

1863 – Cambodia became a French colony.

1864 – Cambodia became a French colony. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

31 Oct 1922 – Norodom Sihanouk who died in 2012. President of Cambodia twice, was born. (Wikipedia Timeline internet).

19 May 1925 – Saloth Sar aka Pol Pot, who died in 1998. Cambodian dictator and mass murderer was born in Prek Sbauv Cambodia. (Time mag Timeline internet).

1941 – Cambodia was occupied by the Japanese.

1941-45 – Japan occupied Cambodia during World War Two. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

17 Nov 1942 – Dutch was born Kaing Geuk Eav in Stoung. Comrade Dutch. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

1945 – The French take over Cambodia again.

1949-52 – Saloth Sar aka Pol Pot went to Paris France on a government scholarship to study Communist Socialist ideology. (Timeline internet).

1953 – France gave Cambodia Independence.

1953 – Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia. Independence from France. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

14 May 1953 – Norodon Sihamoni, Cambodian King was born. (Wikipedia 14 May 2015).

May 1955 – London’s support for Sihanouk in Cambodia against his Communist opponents. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1960 – The government of Laos fled to Cambodia. As the capital city Vientiane was at war. (Worldatlas.com. Laos timeline).

1962 – The poor, those on whom the police and bureaucrats preyed. Peasants and corrupt officials who were hostile to the poor. Asking questions was not part of the culture. The US and China in Vietnam. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1965 – Sihanouk attacked north Vietnam to set up bases inside Cambodia, frontier with south Vietnam. Communist supplies moved through Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1966 – The north Vietnamese in Cambodia and Viet Cong were buying rice directly from Cambodian farmers for more than the government of Cambodia. By 1966 one third of the rice harvest was sold illegally on the black market. Farmers in Cambodia sold rice to the Viet Cong instead of to the Cambodian government. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1967 – The Samlaut uprising. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1969 – The US secret bombing of Cambodia campaign began. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1969-73 – The US air force dropped 539,120 tons of bombs on Cambodia. Killing 700,000 people. Collapse of agriculture and a famine. (Timeline internet).

11 Feb 1969 – The US and Cambodia, the Pentagon and US Air Force bombed Vietnamese inside Cambodia. Nixon and Kissinger. “Operation Breakfast” B-52 Air strikes bombing the north Vietnamese and Viet Cong HQ 'the menu' “Operation menu” napalm T-28's and napalm. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

23 Feb 1969 – US Pres Nixon ordered plans for the secret bombing of Cambodia. (History commons Timeline internet).

18 March 1969 – US Pres Richard M Nixon and 'Operation Menu' the bombing of Cambodia. (Wikipedia Timeline internet).

May 1969 – Article in the New York Times. Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia. 150,000 to 500,000 civilians deaths. (American spy. E Howard Hunt (c)2007 US).

1970 – US bombing of Cambodia's country side. Riots in Phnom Penh. The north Vietnamese embassy was sacked and the flag burned. 550 local Vietnamese were murdered, their bodies were dumped into rivers. CIA sponsored Lon Nol coup. Expelled north Vietnamese diplomats and closed their embassy. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1970 – Lon Noi sent forces to fight North Vietnamese in Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

1970s – Drug smuggling, the CIA and Triads were exporting heroin from Cambodia during the Vietnam war. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1970-72 – The Vietnam war and Cambodia in 1970. New Zealand Chi Lang in Jan 1971. 18 team in March 1972 in Deng Ba Thin near Can Ranh bay, helping train a Cambodian battalion. (New Zealand history. Vietnam war).

1970-75 – Lon Nol was officially backed by the US as leader of Cambodia. (timeline internet).

1970-2001 – Cambodian archives, pictures 2001 Nhem Ein Khmer Rouge photographer, torture prisons, mass murder. By the early 1990s Nhem Ein photos. 1993 American photographers Douglas Niven and Christopher Riley catalogs for 3 years. Chinese photographers 1970.(Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

18 March 1970 – Prince Sihanouk was overthrown by Gen Lon Nol in a US backed coup. He joined the Khmer Rouge in a war. (Timeline internet).

18 March 1970 – After PM Norodom Sihanouk was overthrown. North Vietnamese troops ravaged the country. Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge were allied with Hanoi. The US backed Lon Nol. (America's little wars. (c)2003 P Huchthausen).

18 March 1970 – Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk in a coup. (Nic Dunlop (c)2005 US).

23 March 1970 – Sihanouk spoke on Radio Beijing China, urging an uprising in Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

April 1970 – US and south Vietnam invaded Cambodia from Vietnam to destroy Communist bases there. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

28 April 1970 – US invasion of Cambodia. (History commons. Timeline internet)

29 April 1970 – 50,000 US and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia. (Democratic world. Timeline internet).

4 May 1970 – Looting by US troops in the Cambodian town of Snuol. (AP Timeline internet).

20 June 1970 – The US ended a two month military offensive into Cambodia. (AP Timeline internet).

9 Oct 1970 – Khmer republic Cambodia independence. (Flagspot Timeline internet).

1971 – Cambodia, the French scholar Francois Bizot was taken with his two Khmer assistants, captured by the Khmer Rouge, held for 3 months, interrogated by Comrade Dutch. Chained to a post. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1971 – Cambodian Khmer students in Paris France, second hand book shops in Paris and Chinese restaurants. The situation in Cambodia was worsening, bad corruption. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

25 July 1971 – Smuggling opium and heroin into south Vietnam from Cambodia, 1969-70. 25 July 1971 Chinese drug syndicate based in Cambodia, drug trafficking heroin and opium. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

March 1972 -18 New Zealand team in March 1972 in Deng Ba Thin near Can Ranh bay, to train a Cambodian battalion. (New Zealand history. Vietnam war).

May 1972 – Lon Nol's US backed government in Cambodia was under seige, refugees were in the streets. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1973 – The US bombing of Cambodia was halted by the US Congress. Hundreds of thousands of cluster bombs were dumped during the US war on Cambodia. A B-52 could drop 25,000 of these bomblets in a single bombing run. The US Congress stopped the B-52 strikes in 1973. More than 2 million bombs were dumped on Cambodia. More than 1 million people were killed or wounded and a third of the animals died. Half the population fled to the towns.(Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1973 – Cambodia M-13 was moved to Trapeang Chrab, prisoners were held in holes in the ground. Shackled together, a large bamboo fence surrounded the prison 3 metres high. Mass graves a secret prison. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1973 – A CIA report said that the Khmer Rouge used the US B-52 strikes as propaganda. US bombing campaign in Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

Jan 1973 – War came to Paris France. Khmer Cambodian students, violence among students riot police. Students went to Beijing China for over a year. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

27 June 1973 – US Pres Nixon vetoed a US Senate ban on Cambodian bombing. (Timeline internet).

1975 – Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge slave population forced marriages surveillance and fear. Mass murder S-21. 1975 book called La Torture by Alec Mellor a teacher in France. Communist party of Kampuchea not free to talk. Shanghai China training Nhen Ein as a photographer, work at Tuol Sleng prison. The Killing fields pictures taken in S-21 bones unidentified. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975 – Mao caps Khmer refugees Chinese propaganda in Cambodia. Prisoners at Tuol Sleng S-21 prison electric razor wire, sex abuse of female prisoners. Barbed wire. Khmer Rouge Chinese cadres photos of Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engles, Mao and Pol Pot. Communism. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-78 – People disappeared, prisoners S-21. 21 July 1977 electric shocks, executions end of 1978. Three quarters of the 22 million population were dead. By the end of 1977 Democratic Kampuchea ended diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Border war. June 1975 fighting along the Cambodian Vietnam border S-21 mass killings 1978. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-79 – Cambodian genocide. Yale university US. 1.7 million people were killed. 21% of the population.

1975-79 – CNN. Mormons search for roots in Cambodia. Matthew D La Plante 7 May 2015. The Khmer Rouge destroyed half of all government records. Majority Buddhist country. Most of the 1.8 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge during their 4 year rule were Buddhists.

1975-79 – The tribunal Khmer Rouge 1975-79 genocide a crime is a crime. Oct 2004 Cambodian govt and UN human rights. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-79 – Phnom Penh Oct 1989 S-21 torture and disappeared electrocuted. Papers found at the prison. 6 Nov 1978 Chum Mey 7 Jan 1979 Vietnamese army entered the city S-21. Poverty and sex slavery, begging and corruption. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-79 – Pol Pot (1925-1998), aka Saloth Sar led the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, genocide, starved to death. Tuol Sleng prison. 90,000 of the Cham people died. The government truth and extermination tribunal and 21 out of 113 Imams survived. (Timeline internet).

6 Feb 1975 – US Pres Gerald Ford asked the US Congress for $497 million in aid for Cambodia. (Timeline internet).

April 1975 – Executions and forced marriages. Ritualized cannibalism, atrocities. US backed army with small arms, mortars and artillery. By April 1975 refugees in Phnom Penh 600,000 people reduced from 2 million in the city. Convoys of aid and food from America. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

April 1975 – 12 April 1975 America evacuated embassy staff by helicopter. Lon Nol fled to Hawaii. Refugees in the capital food was scarce. Malnutrition. 16 April heavy shelling explosions. The Santenbal secret police Office 15 Prey Sar prison. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

17 April 1975 – The Lon Nol republic collapsed. Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

17 April 1975 – Leader of the Khmer Rouge was Khieu Samphan. Pol Pot leader of the Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Penh. Communism was forced onto the people, there were purges. The country was renamed Democratic Kampuchea, there were forced marriages. (Timeline internet).

17 April 1975 – The Khmer Rouge forced people into the countryside and closed the borders. Mass graves. The Khmer Rouge, like the Nazis, were record keepers and thousands of documents survive. Records, archives and photos of the genocide. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

12 May 1975 – The US White house said the Cambodian government had seized an American ship, the Mayagonez, . US marines recapted the ship after 3 days. 39 civilians were released. (ABC news. Today in history. 12 May 2015 AP).

1976 – Nhem Ein was a photographer who was at Tuol Sleng prison aka S-21 where prisoners were tortured and killed. (Timeline internet).

1976-78 – Photos taken by Nhem Ein in Phnom Penh in 1976. More than 2,000 people were taken to S-21. By mid 1978, 5,765 people taken to S-21 records survived. 2,000 children. Purges began. People disappeared, arrests, victims, prisoners killed. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1976-80 – Psychological torture. Prisoners, Khmer Rouge. 1976. P-98 patients died from incorrect diagnosis. Prisoners in Tuol Sleng forced marriages. Fields of death execution grounds. 8,000 skulls exhumed from mass graves. Discovered in 1980. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1976-80 – Old books, Mao caps, Khmer Rouge controlled Cambodia. Rice was being stored and sent to unknown destinations while the majority of people starved. People began to disappear. Control, prisons, Mao caps. Shocks with electrical wires. Indoctrination S-21 Khmer Rouge dehumanized prisoners. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US)

May 1976 – Prisoners relocated to the Lycee Tuol Svay Prey. Phnom Penh HQ Khmer Rouge secret police of S-21. Pol Pot's plans S-21 non association of prisoners, pretext of petty jealousy and gossip. Barbed wire electric fences. Cut off from the outside world S-21 Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1978 – 15,000 Chinese advisors were in Cambodia during Pol Pot's rule. (Timeline internet).

25 Dec 1978 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia and siezed the capital Phnom Penh on 7 Jan 1979. The next day they established the Peoples Republic of Kampuchea or PRK, under Heng Samryn.

1979 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia. The peoples republic of Kampuchea. The Khmer Rouge were allegedly re armed and supplied with western aid. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1979 – Cambodian farmer Neang Sang found the killing fields. The main execution and disposal site for the rulers of Tuel Sleng, Pol Pot prison.

1979 – William Shawcross. Sideshow. Kissinger, Nixon and the destruction of Cambodia. Simon Schuster New York.

1979 – The Vietnamese took Phnom Penh. Dutch was the last Khmer Rouge to leave the city. He did not destroy all the documents. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

1979 – Documents from Phnom Penh showed details of genocide by the Khmer Rouge. These documents were found and copied for storage in American libraries. (Timeline internet).

Jan 1979 – Documentation of the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot, when the Khmer Rouge were evacuating Phnom Penh, ahead of the Vietnamese. In Jan 1979 they ordered the prison chief to destroy all records of the secret prison, which the outside world knew nothing. Prisoners were killed. 100,000 pages of archives of the prison executions and tortures. Archives of the Khmer Rouge prison system, crimes. Denial of genocidal crimes. Archival records can prove denial of the past. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

19 Aug 1979 – In a Phnom Penh court trial, Pol Pot and his deputy Leng Sary were sentenced to death in absentia, for genocide during the Khmer Rouge reign. (Timeline internet).

1980s – During the 1,364 days of Khmer Rouige rule, 2 million people died, about 1,466 people a day. Cambodian holocaust. Khmer Rouge mass murders. The people of Cambodia were isolated. By 1980 more than 1 million refugees in camps. Thai military convoys, trucks at night. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1980's – The SAS were in Cambodia. Australian journalist John Pilger. British SAS ops were training Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1980s. The SAS in Cambodia were not employed by the British govt. Deniable. SAS personel disappeared from army records. John Pilger's book Distant voices. Ex SAS worked in private with the Khmer Rouge. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

Early 1980 – About 6% of Cambodia was held by the Vietnamese PRK forces.

1981 – Wilfred Burchett. The China, Cambodia, Vietnam triangle. Zed press London UK.

1982 – John Pilger. Anthony Barnett. Aftermath. The struggle of Cambodia and Vietnam. New Statesman London UK.

1982 – Sihanouk led the coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea, with Royalists, Lon Nol's republic and the Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

Jan 1982 – The Vietnamese PRK forces attacked the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, with 155mm guns in the mountains south west border with Thailand, punishing the area, the frontier where they were. The Thai army and drove them back.

1984-85 – The Vietnamese offensive pushed the resistance into Thailand. The war continued. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

25 Dec 1985 – Vietnamese forces with T-54 tanks and 155mm guns, attacked Nong Samet camp on the Thai border, they seized part of it and blew up what remained.

1987 – Haing S Ngor. Roger Warner. Surviving the killing fields. Chatto and Windus London UK.

June 1987 – Amnesty int. Kampuchea political imprisonment and torture. London UK.

1988 – Eva Mysliviec. Punishing the poor. The int isolation of Kampuchea. Oxford.

May 1988 – Vietnam said it agreed with Kampuchea on the withdrawl of 50,000 volunteers. Between June and December and the rest by 1990.

1989 – Vietnam withdrew from Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge captured the gem mining town of Pailin. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1989-91 – 1989 Soviet Union left Afghanistan. The Berlin wall fell. The town of Pailin fell to the Khmer Rouge with Thai support. By May 1990 Khmer Rouge capital of Cambodia. Oct 1991 Borai refugee camp Cambodia near the Thai border. An area under Khmer Rouge control. Corruption and exploitation girls and boys. UN troops and brothels. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1991 – Cambodia genocide. Pol Pot tourism and the UN. Sanitising the past. Australian Gareth Evans said the genocide issue was resolved. After the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1991 – Paris peace accords. UN mission. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1992 – Peacekeeping operations began. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1992 – UNESCO named the Angkor temples as a world heritage site. Buddhist. (Timeline internet)

1992-1999 – 10 million mines in Cambodia. Mine clearance teams, campaign to ban mines. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1993 – The Khmer Rouge withdrew. The Royalist party won a UN sponsored election. UNTAC withdrew, The war with the Khmer Rouge continued. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1993-95 – Siem Peap Cambodia UN. The Khmer Rouge were targeting the UN. 23 to 28 May 1993 election violence. The war continued. 1994 the new govt outlawed the Khmer Rouge. Nov 1995 the Khmer Rouge changed their names many times. Trade in gems. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

March 1993 – UN troops in Cambodia. The UN began to repatriate refugees from camps in Thailand in buses. UNHCR 200,000 refugees. In March 1993 the Tonk Rep massacre of the UN by the Khmer Rouge. Ethnic cleansing, genocide. UNTAC general Loridon left the mission. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

May 1993 – Asia watch. Cambodia human rights before and after the election. Human rights watch vol 5 no 10.

1994 – The Khmer Rouge was outlawed as a group. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

May 1994 – The LDS Mormon church was recognised in Cambodia

1995-97 – 1997 killings, violence. Lies used to kill people. A crime is a crime. There is no time limit for complaints. The Cambodian documentation centre in Phnom Penh set up in 1995 by Yale uni, collecting info evidence. Director Chhang Youk. Documents and files, archives and research. Catalogs, stores. New material keeps coming to light. (Nic Dunlop. The loist executioner (c)2005 US).

June 1995 – Cambodian Mormon saints in southern California, Suzanne Lois Kimbal. Ensign LDS.

1997 – Excavations on what might have been the capital of the kingdom of Funan at Angkor Borei. Archeology. (Timeline internet).

1997 – During a coup in 1997 corpses were found in the capital, murdered by government death squads. Tortured and shot. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

Jan 1997 – Gospel gains foothold in Cambodia. Leland and Joyce B White. Ensign Mormon LDS.

7 March 1997 – Child sex in Cambodia. The Times London UK. Sex charges and an international paedophile ring.

Oct 1997 – The gospel takes hold in Cambodia. Leland and Joyce White. Liahona LDS Mormon.

1998 – Pot Pol, Tuol Sleng where prisoners were registered, documents found in the prison. Pol Pot was put on trial June 1998. Fighting continued. Dec 1998 UN sec gen Boutros Boutros Ghali visited Phnom Penh Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1998 – Annuska Derks. Trafficking of Vietnamese women and children to Cambodia. Geneva int org migration.

15 April 1998 – Pol Pot died of a heart attack in Anlong Veng. He was cremated. (Timeline internet).

20 Dec 1998 – Riots in Sihanoukville. Toxic waste imports from Taiwan. Hundreds of Cambodians fled after 3,000 tons of toxic waste was dumped. Loaded with mercury. From Formosa plastics company. (Timeline internet).

1999 – David Chandler. Brother number one. A political biography of Pol Pot. Westview press.

1999 – David Chandler. Voices from S-21 terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison. Uni of Calif press.

1999 – Ta Mok, the last of the Khmer Rouge, went to jail awaiting trial. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

11 Aug 1999 – A Report said half of Cambodia's 20 thousand sex slaves were infected with AIDS HIV. (Internet Timeline).

2003 – Sex trafficking in Cambodia. Leviseda Douglas. Victoria Australia. Monash university. Worldcat database.

2003 – Rachel Hughes. The abject artefacts of memory, photos from Cambodia's genocide. Media action society. Sage publications London UK. Delhi India.

26 Oct 2003 – Report on Cambodia's sex slaves being pack raped. Its called 'bauk' and the practise has be going on for years. (Timeline internet).

2004 – Good questions wrong answers. CIA estimates of arms traffic through Sihanoukville Cambodia during the Vietnam war. Thomas L Ahern jr. Center for the study of intelligence.

2005 – Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. A journey to the heart of the killing fields. Cambodia 1975-79. Two million people were killed by the Khmer Rouge. History of the Cambodian genocide. ISBN 10 0-8027-1472-2. ISBN 13-978-0-8027-1472-5. Waller and co New York.

2005 – Cambodian genocide bibliographic details http://www.yale.edu/cgp/ index catalog Khmer Rouge. Yale uni US. (The invisible web. Chris Sherman. Gary Price (c)2005 US).

Dec 2005 – The IMF wrote off Cambodia's $82 million debt. (Timeline internet).

6 June 2006 – More than 1,000 police in riot gear evicted hundreds of families who lived in a Phnom Penh shanty town. (AP. Timeline internet).

July 2006 – Cambodia, a land of developing peace. Marissa A Widdison. Liahona and Ensign LDS Mormon.

31 Oct 2006 – An American police officer was in custody. Donald Rene Ramirez. Sex abuse of a 14 year old girl. He had been visiting Cambodia for the past two decades. (AP Timeline internet).

11 June 2007 – Thai army suspects Cambodian casinos on border of laundering money and storing drugs. BBC London. Wassna Nanuam report. Casinos as drug storage points, traffickers smuggling via casinos.

17 July 2007 – The Cambodian government issued, banning, AP (Timeline internet).

17 Oct 2007 – Alexander Trofimov aged 41, Russian chairman of Koh Puos investments ltd. He was charged with debauchery, sex abuse of children. Raping at least 6 girls. He was developing an island as a tourist resort in Cambodia. (AP Timeline internet).

3 March 2008 – Laws were passed. Supression of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. US policy on human trafficking. (Timeline internet).

April 2008 – Church increasing self reliance in Cambodia. Lynda Hansen. Ensign LDS Mormon

Aug 2008 – Cambodia leased agricultural land to Kuwaiti investors. PM visits. (Timeline internet).

7 Oct 2008 – UN food agency. World Food Program. WFP was providing free breakfasts for thousands of poor children. (AP Timeline internet).

8 Oct 2008 – The Asian development bank gave Cambodia $35 million in emergency food aid to help with high food prices among the poorest of the poor. (AP Timeline internet).

2 Feb 2009 – Cambodian police in Siem Reap arrested Jack Louis Sporich aged 75. American on charges of sex abuse of 4 boys. A paedophile. (AP Timeline internet).

5 Feb 2009 – Corrupt elite of Cambodia. One of the worlds poorest countries. Profits from mining and oil exploration. (AP Timeline internet).

26 Aug 2009 – Cambodian court judge. Michael James Dodd of Washington DC guilty of sex and a 14 year old girl. Jailed. (AP Timeline internet).

1 Sept 2009 – Sex tourism operations nets three. Justice department says. LA California CNN Cambodian children. Paedophiles.

2010 – Nada world is run by the Malaysian multi millionaire Dr Tan Shri Chen Lip, with $195 million from gambling. He has money in the Cayman islands. Involved in sex trafficking. The mafia’s control the sex trafficking of women and children. Traffickers look for younger and younger girls. It is the corruption of the governments that’s the real mafia, it is the corruption the does not stop. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – The international network of the Iglesia Restaurado de los Perfectos led by millionaire Jorge Erdely, trafficking children for illegal adoption, for families within the church. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – 50,000 girls under 18 are sex trafficked from Vietnam and enslaved, starved, also girls under 10. The sex exploitation of 50,000 Vietnamese girls in Cambodia, while police are paid and corrupt. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK)

2010 – The human sex slave trade is about money. A sex trafficker can deposit money in a Las Vegas casino, and a few weeks later withdraw in Nada world in Cambodia, moving money to London. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – The population of Cambodia was about 14 million. (Timeline internet).

2010 – Slavery pornography. Networks of paedophiles with access to sex slaves. Corruption and Europeans. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Male tourists in Cambodia are 50 to 60 years old. Accompanied by girls 12 years old. Foreign paedophiles. Sex tourism in Cambodia. Girls and boys are trafficked for sex. As in Thailand, child sex trafficking as sex slaves, their own families sold them and are part of a system of rape and used for child porn. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

June 2010 – Cambodian latter day saints moving in a new direction. Chad E Phares. Liahoina and Ensign LDS Mormon..

26 July 2010 – A timeline of the Khmer Rouge regime and its aftermath by Miranda Leitsinger CNN.

June 2011 – Episode 30 Brother and sister Winegar. Cambodia Mormon channel rapid. LDS Mormon

July 2011 – The mafia are advising the finance minister of Cambodia. The Japanese police chief is allied with the Yakuza. Corruption related to human sex trafficking. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

4 Nov 2011 – Cambodian court. American James D'Agostino aged 56, a doctor at a childrens hospital. Four years jail. Sex abuse of a 15 year old boy. (Timeline internet).

21 Nov 2011 – Khmer Rouge trial. Cambodia awaits answers. By Guy Delauney BBC Phnom Penh.

2012 – The Genocide court sentenced a Khmer Rouge jailer to life in prison for his role in running a prison where more than 15,000 men, women and children were killed. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

26 March 2012 – Police had sights on Cambodian drug trade. Nick McKenzie. The Canberra Times. ACT.

29 May 2012 – Adoption scandal. YouTube. Arundohle. Laury Galindo.

4 June 2012 – Alexander Trofimov, $200 million tourist resort. Sex abuse of an 11 year old girl. Russian businessman sex abuse of minors, a paedophile. 6 year old kids. (AFP Timeline internet).

2013 – The Cambodian book of the dead. Ebook Oxford Osprey publishing ltd Worldcat database.

25 March 2013 – Cambodia‘s state orphanages where children are sex abused. USA Today. 21 children in need.

7 April 2013 – Orphan rackets in Cambodia. Lindsay Murdoch. The Canberra Times. Orphanages in Cambodia are sex exploiting children. The multi million dollar orphanage business.

7 April 2013 – Orphanages. Lindsay Murdoch. South East Asian Sun Herald. Sydney NSW. Orphanages in Cambodia and sex abuse, exploitation of children in Phnom Penh.

16 May 2013 – Orphans and sex abuse. Vice. Dr Lee Wesle. Child abuse by those who work in Cambodian orphanages, paedophiles.

11 June 2013 – Two 10th century Cambodian stone statues held at the New York metropolitan museum of art were returned to Cambodia. Looted atifacts. Looting of ancient temples in the 1970s and 1980s. Stolen Cambodian artifacts were smuggled through Thailand. AP (Timeline internet).

13 Aug 2013 – A chilling look at Cambodia’s killing fields. MTVU. Gruesom mass graves of children, victims.

20 Sept 2013 – The Cambodian daily Saing Soenthrith. Two kings of heroin on their way to Phnom Penh int airport to fly to Australia. Foreigners arrested for smuggling heroin. A government advisor. Child sex abuse and exploitation. Fake orphanages. Sex trafficking of orphans. Western paedophiles. Asian girls under ten years old, poverty prevents them from getting lawyers or justice

11 Nov 2013 – Police arrested Russsian real estate tycoon Sergei Polonsky aged 40, embezzlement charge. (Reuters Timeline internet).

2014 – Human sex trafficking in Cambodia. Chenda Keo. New York Times. Routledge Taylor. Worldcat database.

2014 – In 2009 Cambodia banned international adoptions, children being trafficked. The ban was lifted in 2013 and international adoptions were expected to resume in 2014. (Timeline internet).

21 May 2014 – Meth on rise in the kingdom. The Phnom Penh Post. Meth and ecstacy seizures tied to labs in Cambodia.

11 June 2014 – Daniel Johnson aged 35. Sentenced to one years jail for abusing 5 boys aged 11 to 15 at the Hope Tawihors orphanage where he was the director. Also wanted in the US for child sex abuse, a paedophile. (AP Timeline internet).

2 July 2014 – Cambodian police arrest two suspects for human organ trafficking. Xinhuanet China. Kidneys are sold in Thailand, forged documents and hospitals.

8 July 2014 – William Glenn aged 43 a teacher from Mississippi US. His body was found at a garbage dump. (AP Timeline internet).

9 July 2014 – Poverty and abuse in Cambodia’s virginity sex trade. The ‘Virgin trade’ in Cambodia. ITV news. The Independent UK. Lucy Watson. British paedophiles, sold by her family and raped by a sex offender. Convicted abuser, and a government advisor. Child sex abuse and exploitation. Fake orphanages, sex trafficking of orphans. Western paedophiles. Asian girls under ten years old. Poverty prevents victims from getting lawyers or justice.

18 Aug 2014 – Cop caught in drug raid. The Phnom Penh Post. Dealing meth and the drug ice.

18 Sept 2014 – Film Ultimate betrayl. Cambodian orphanage scandal. IRIN news.org. Paedophiles and sex tourism of children.

19 Sept 2014 – The New York Times. The Khmer Rouge archives, courts of Cambodia. Archives of Pol Pot regime. David Scheffer UN.

22 Sept 2014 – Buddhist Cambodian monk arrested for meth. Anadolu agency AA.

4 Oct 2014 – Cambodian police chief charged with corruption, embezzling $650,000 (2.11 million) of public funds. AFP Astro Avani Phnom Penh.

31 Oct 2014 – Court places two more union leaders under supervision. The Indonesian Daily. Five of the six leaders, criminal activity. Worker strikes.

9 Jan 2015 – Thailand’s senior police officers were sacked. Gambling dens, sex slavery, smuggling and sex trafficking. Ancient Buddhist relics and statues were stolen and taken from Cambodia. (Private Eye mag UK).

19 Feb 2015 – Campaign to end Cambodia’s orphan industry. World Bulletin.

14 April 2015 – Cambodian orphans yearn for answers 40 years after fleeing the Khmer Rouge. Time mag.

5 May 2015 – Australia is trying to get (Muslim) refugees to re settle in Cambodia. Time mag. 750 asylum seekers in Australian detention on Nauru.

7 May 2015 – Mormons search for roots in Cambodia. CNN. Matthew D La Plante. South Phom Penh stake LDS. 12,000 Cambodian Mormons today. Cambodian history of war and genocide. Tracing family history and geneaology in a challenge. Most of the 1.8 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge during their 4 year rule in the 1970's (1975-79), were Buddhists.

7 May 2015 – CNN Mormons search for roots in Cambodia. Matthew D Plante. Lack of genealogy history records. LDS Family search in south east Asia. No historical search for Cambodia.

8 May 2015 – (Muslim) refugees resist Australian deportation to Cambodia. Telesur English.

2 Aug 2015 – Runaway paedophile teacher deported back to the UK after abusing 3 brothers in Cambodia. Matthew Drake and Lee Sorel reportedl. Richard Fruin aged 38 was in Cambodia. English teacher and convicted paedophile was eventually jailed in the UK. He was found in bed with an 8 year old boy. Possession of child porn. Previous convictons for producing child porn.

















Brazil research

BRAZIL



1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies. Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or “fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).

1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil for sugar plantations.

16th to 18th centuries – High demand for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from west. (21 Sept 2012).

1662-1807 – Between 1662 and 1807 British ships carried 3.25 million Africans across the Atlantic. 70% of them destined for the sugar economies of Brazil and the Caribbean. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James Walvin ©2007 UK).

Jan 1748 – Brazil and back to the UK. The “Greyhound” with African slaves. (The trade, the owner, the slaves. James Walvin (c)2007 UK).

1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.

1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline internet).

7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP 9/7/97 timeline internet).

1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to help rebels there (timeline internet).

1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.

1874 – The “Adamant” ship arrived in Nelson New Zealand on 8 Aug 1874. On one voyage it ran aground off the coast of Brazil, but was refloated and continued its voyage. The voyage of the “Adamant” from Plymouth UK to Nelson NZ took 93 days. There were nine voyages to NZ altogether. (NZ genealogist. Jan Feb 2009).

13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4 million slaves were imported, the most of any country in the west.

13 May 1888 – Princess Isabel of Brazil signed 'Lei Aurea' abolishing slavery. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

11 Feb 1935 – Johann “Jonny” Heinrich de Graff was sent to Brazil. Luis Carlos Prestes revolutionary movement wanted to overthrow the right wing government of Pres Getulio Vargas who had seized power in 1930. There was no SIS station in Brazil but the UK had business there. Canadian owned Brazilian Traction light and power company was the Rio utility company. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

29 June 1943 –Reading Eagle. Former Nazi envoy in Brazil jailed. 19 suspected as German spies. Rio de Janeiro, Kurt Preuffer, former German ambassador to Brazil and 18 others as Nazi spies.

May 1944 – In Brazil there were many arrests and 86 convictions, Abwehr Germans in Brazil. (FBI a history. Rodri Jefferys Jones ©2007 US).

1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during the resistance of World War Two, and went to Harvard business school, landed in Brazil. Erling Lorentzen, was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon flew to Paraguay in late 1987.

3 September 1969 – The US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped. Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.

1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel. President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans eventually backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter. German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of America. ©1981 PE Erdman).

1973 – John FW Dulles. Anarchists and Communists in Brazil. Austin Texas.

June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120 million Brazil (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao Paulo Brazil temple. (President LDS ©2006).

1980-2002 – Luiz Inaco Lula da Silva 2002 election in Brazil. A member of the progressive welfare party in 1980 helping the poor. Oil and gas reserves. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

1988 – Antonio Bardellino and Mario Iovine, fish flour and cocaine business and murder. Interpol tracking. Bardellino’s body was never found. (Gomorrah, the other mafia. Roberto Saviano (c)2007 Italy).

1990s – In Brazil the Cali cartel worked closely with Italy’s organised crime groups there from Cyprus to launder drug money. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1994 – Orphans and the transition from slave to free labour in northeast Brazil. John Meznar. Journal of social history.

1 May 1997 – Christopher Colombo missing person.

1998-Nov 2005 – China’s President visited in Nov 2005, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru. Chinese business, a satellite program in 1998. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

1999 – A concise history of Brazil. Boris Fausto. Google books.

2000-2001 – Illicit trafficking in firearms. Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Pericles Gasparini Alves. UN institute. New York UN Worldcat database.

24 July 2002 – Ukraine and Brazil launch construction of a new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50 Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)

Feb 2004 – Cupola leader Fabio Franco was pulled out of the boot of a car by Brazil’s police after his arrest in Sao Paulo. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006 UK).

25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium ore, taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals in a pick up truck was seized.

Jan 2005 – World Socialist forum in Brazil. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

2006 – Smuggling charges as organs are harvested from street children in Brazil. Costa Nostra. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

13 May 2006 – Sao Paulo violence, a rebellion in several prisons in Brazil. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo, suspected gang members exchanged gunfire with police, and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks, and burned buses in and around Sao Paulo, for a second day. A Brazilian died when he opened a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid military bases.

27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake bomb.

2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century. ©20076 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in Brazil. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief, major general Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to sell eight combat airplanes to the Dominican republic, Estadao reported. The transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value. (Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under five in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been legally registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 boys and girls do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID is not able to identify themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

February 2011 – LDS Church history in Brazil facts Ensign p70.

June 2012 – LDS President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign. Nov 2012 ).

19 November 2012 – Brazil’s sex traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.

1 Jan 2013 – Mushtaq Ahmed. Missing. Interpol.

12 May 2013 – Tammy Emanuele Alves Caldeira. Missing.

13 March 2014 – NZ police look for cocaine smuggling suspect. Waikato Times Hamilton. Brazilian $1 million cocaine bust. South America. Cocaine supply route between Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand.

5 June 2014 – Daniel Stuckey. Andrew Blake. How FBI informant Sabu helped Anonymous hack Brazil. Motherboard Vice.

6 June 2014 – Two Brazilians admit supplying cocaine. David Clarkson. The Press Christchurch NZ. Possession of cocaine for supply 2.35 kilograms of cocaine worth 3.5 million was hidden.

23 June 2014 – FIFA world cup forces homelessness on thousands of children. Sick and elderly too. Liberty voice. Rebecca Savastio. Forced evictions by government.

8 July 2014 – Brazil torture techniques revealed in declassified US documents.

6 Aug 2014 – Latino Fox news EFE. Four Brazil police officers arrested on rape charges. in a poor area. slums and police units.

18 Sept 2014 – NZ Herald. Holly Ryan. Tait expands in South America. NZ communications company buys Brazil giant SGM telecommunicacoei. Christchurch New Zealand based Tait communications. A digital wireless business. Sao Paulo military and police riots and anti poor people. Military police in Panama too.

28 Sept 2014 – Senator dismissed for corruption in Brazil now behind bars. Fox news Latino. Banker construction magnate Luiz Estrevao.

4 Oct 2014 – Brazil elections. Wall street journal. Rio de Janeiro Rochinha slums. Reuters Sao Paulo.

6 Oct 2014 – The persistence of corruption in Brazil’s politics. Deusche Welle Germany. Embezzlement and corruption. Brazil politics.

16 Oct 2014 – 51 arrested for child porn in Brazil. Brazil Business Today. Paedophiles.

22 Oct 2014 – Brazil corruption. New York Times. Presidential voting, the evil of corruption is spreading like an epidemic.

29 Oct 2014 – Lucas Lindemann Aagesen. Missing 9 year old boy. Interpol. San Paulo Brazil.

29 Oct 2014 – Brazil Socialist. The New Yorker. Dilma Rousseff. Brazil’s Socialist elected pres. The world’s fifth most populous country. Socialism and corruption. The Guardian.

31 Oct 2014 – Petrobras, law firms, corruption investigation., Petrobras is Brazil’s biggest company. Corruption scandals, money laundering and manipulation investigations.

31 Oct 2014 – Socialism and corruption in Brazil. Rouseff. The Guardian UK. embezzlement.

4 Nov 2014 – Petrobras int CEO. Wall Street Journal. Rio de Janero. Brazil State run company Petroleo Brasileko SA. Seattle SP.

4 Nov 2014 – Intelnews.org. Joseph Fitsanakis. Brazil to Portugal internet cable to avoid US intel agencies.

5 Nov 2014 – Brazil police and deaths in Belem. Police revenge attacks. BBC UK. Reports of off duty police killing nine people in Belem.

5-6 Nov 2014 – Nine people are killed in Brazil. Police vigilantes. Wall Street Journal. San Paulo. The poor port city of Belem. Police killed nine people. Int business Times.

9 Nov 2014 – US opens investigation into Brazil’s Petrobras. Nasdaq. US dept of justice. CNBC.

10 Nov 2014 – US turns up heat on investigation into Petrobras. Financial Times. Brazils biggest company, corruption case. Pres Dilma Rousseff.

10 Nov 2014 – Phillip Smith now in Brazil. Brazil business news. Interpol.

11 Nov 2014 – Killer and paedophile from NZ now in Brazil. Stuff.co.nz. Daniel Galvin. Passport Phillip John Traynor.

11 Nov 2014 – NZ murderer and prison escaper, paedophile may have joined up with an international paedophile ring in Brazil. NZ Herald. John Weekes.

11 Nov 2014 – Gherkin brought by Brazil’s banking rich for 700 million. Telegraph UK. Joseph Safra, Brazils second richest man is worth $12.2 billion. Bloomberg billionaires index.

11 Nov 2014 – The Gherkin, sold to Brazil’s Joseph Safra. The Guardian UK. The Gherkin is a London skyscraper.

11 Nov 2014 – Trail of escaped killer and paedophile leads to Brazil. Interpol spokesman Ricardo Quiroz.

11 Nov 2014 – Police talk to pair over Smith’s escape. A US based police officer is on his way to Brazil. Interpol alerts.

12 Nov 2014 – Skynews. Australia. International hunt for New Zealand paedophile killer. AAP.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil police kill six people a day says report. The Guardian UK. Brazil forum on public safety. Police killed 11,197 people over the past 5 years.

13 Nov 2014 – Let Brazils homeless speak for themselves. Citylab. Removal of minors on the streets. Treatment of homeless by government is harsh.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil’s police captured New Zealand murderer and paedophile Smith. Wellington Nick Perry. Brad Brooks in Rio de Janeiro.

15 Nov 2014 – Petrobras scandal widens, earning delayed. Wall Street Journal. Sao Paulo, federal police arrested former executive.

15 Nov 2014 – Brazil police arrest 18 in Petrobras corruption raids. BBC UK. State run oil firm Petrobras.

29 Nov 2014 – Skanska quits South America over corruption. He local sc. 20 senior managers with a construction company in Brazil have been arrested for corruption. P
aying bribes.

14 Dec 2014 – Corruption allegations. Telegraph UK. Costa and moneylender Alberto Youssef among the first 20 to be arrested in March 2014. Corruption in Brazil.

17 Jan 2015 – Stuff.co.nz. Brazil and Tait. Tess McClure. Christchurch New Zealand tech company Tait communications. Brazil hub in Sao Paulo, Garry Diack. Contracts with the Sao Paulo police. Military police of the state of Parema and Petrobras. The press Chch NZ

22 Jan 2015 – A Brazilian surfer was shot dead by a police officer who was drunk. The Guardian UK. Funeral for the surfer with thousands of mourners.

27 March 2015 – Audrey Young. NZ Herald. GCSB spying report. Brazil demands an explanation from New Zealand. Brazil diplomat Roberto Azevedo. The New Zealand GCSB spied on Brazil at the WTO.

28 March 2015 – Corruption currents. Brazil new bribery scandal. Wall Street Journal. Petrobras state owned oil company.

28 March 2015 – Brazil police say massive tax fraud scheme. NZ Herald. Sao Paulo AP Federal police say companies fraud amounts to $2 billion in unpaid fines and taxes.

12 May 2015 – A mega city runs dry. Brazil's largest city is the focus of the worst water crisis. Dandelion Care2. The largest city in a country, that holds 20% of the earth's fresh water supply ends up without any.

8 June 2015 – Two people are dead after a prison riot erupted in south east Brazil's overcrowded jail. Two prisoners died. TVNZ. CTV news.

12 June 2015 – HSBC and Citigroup, Socgen foreign banks in Brazil. Bloomberg. HSBC holdings pic. Scaling back in Bazil.

26 June 2015 – Italy's mafia and cocaine trafficking. The Guardian UK. Calabrian crime syndicate Ndrangheta, drugs going through Brazil. 80% of all cocaine entering Europe goes through Santos port. Brazil.

29 July 2015 – Brazil businessman Odebrecht charged in corruption scandal. BBC UK.

29 July 2015 – CEO from Brazil Electonuclear was arrested in corruption probe. Wall Street Journal. Electrobras unit. Bribes from construction companies between 2009 and 2014.

1 Aug 2015 – HSBC nears $4 billion sale with Brazil. Financial Times. Bradesco is Brazil's second largest private bank, in talks with HSBC. Reuters UK.

19 Oct 2015 – Petrobras corruption. UK taxpayers pay millions, Brazil oil company. The Independent UK. Chris Green.

22 Oct 2015 – The horrors of Brazil's prisons. Jorges story. No matress to sleep on. State of Pernambuco, over crowded east Brazil. Human rights watch. The week in rights.

23 Oct 2015 – Killings of street children by police in Brazil, leading up to the 2016 Olympics. Twitter. CSC.

23 Oct 2015 – Street children are being killed in Brazil. Twitter. CSC.